Registration procedure

In brief, the following procedure is recommended:

1. Get in contact with a BCF coordinator either by e-mail (see contact) or by phone. This is for the initial discussion of your project and which equipment you want to use.
2. Please register at our booking system.
3. Please make an appointment with the local admin of the equipment to discuss the overall goals of your work and how to customize your experiments with us.
4. Fill in the BCF-specific “Nutzungordnung” (terms of use), sign it, and send it to the coordinator / or local admin of the equipment you will use.
5. The PI and you must fill in a “Nutzungsvereinbarung” (user agreement) and send it to the coordinator / or local admin of the equipment you will use.
6. When you have prepared your test samples according to the recommendations made during the initial meeting with the core facility, we will introduce you to the instruments for a basic acquisition setup with your samples.
7. Training (1 – 4 hours) is mandatory if you want to use the instrument unassisted. Afterward, you are allowed to make bookings for the instrument.
8. We will provide specific data analysis software located at the SIKT and VMF Workstation to improve your experiments and for further discussion.

Assisted use

The users should contact the scientific adviser to schedule an appointment on the instrument when both parties are available.

Training for unassisted use

To use instruments of the BCF on your own, each user must undergo training by the local administrator of the facility for each microscope system s/he wants to use.

Booking

For booking of the BCF instruments, please use our online booking tool. Booking times: 24/7 is possible, with a few exceptions. Please inform us if you use the instruments at weekends and at night.

Data retention policy

After the image acquisition, users must transfer data from microscopes to a local server. Data must be transferred from the server to our workstations or your own device for imaging processing.
Users are responsible for their own data and should set up their own data storage system compatible with general data retention rules.

Publications

Please, consider the following information regarding “Acknowledgements” and send us a notification if an experiment performed on facility instrument is published in a scientific journal.
“We appreciate the University Leipzig BioImaging Core Facility (BCF equipment INST 268/230-1; EFRE 100192650, 100195814, 100144684) for assistance”